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[atyourservice]

Not necessarily that the games are strictly in those distinct genres, but that they have the best zombie action or survival or horror experience you've gone through

For me

Action: Left for dead games (2 is just more of 1 in every way, so just l4d2, really)
Survival: State of decay 2
Horror: Dead space, if that counts?

 

[Nankatsu]

Action wise I would put Days Gone on the list.

 

[VeganElduderino]

ReRemake, Re2Remake and Re4 remake

 

[TintoConCasera]

Action: RE4
Survival: Project Zomboid (on the early stages of the game)
Horror: not sure. Dead Space probably.

 

[atyourservice]

I found it surprisingly difficult to think of a horror example. I guess the empowering aspect of videogames makes it difficult to really be scared?

I think of these games as 'having scary settings and atmosphere' rather than the experience actually being scary.
Might just need to try VR though

 

[Gonzito]

Re4 by far

 

[atyourservice]

ReRemake, Re2Remake and Re4 remake

Honestly impressive the range RE games have

 

[bender]

Action: RE4
Survival: Left 4 Dead
Horror: REmake

 

[intbal]

Dying Light is the best of all three.

 

[hemo memo]

Action: Days Gone
Survival: RE4
Horror: Dead Space

 

[VeganElduderino]

Honestly impressive the range RE games have

fuckinA man! just the best IMO of course

 

[Aion002]

Action: RE6
Survival: State of Decay 2
Horror: RE1R

 

[killatopak]

Project Zomboid.

 

[Arsic]

Action: RE4Remake
Survival: RE2 Remake
Horror: Evil Within (not zombies but idgaf)

Bonus: Narrative: Silent Hill 2 Remake

 

[EverydayBeast]

Mercenaries mode on RE5 was wonderful and immediately comes to mind when defining best survival horror multiplayer games.

 

[atyourservice]

Dying Light is the best of all three.

Eh. I can see how nightime runs can technically cover horror, but action might be a little too far for me. This despite no-hud Dying light being my favorite game in the entire genre

Subjective question though, so no wrong answers

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

RE6 mercenaries
R3make
Rem4ke
COD CW/BLOPS6

 

[Davevil]

Deadlight

 

[ResilientBanana]

State of Decay was a fantastic zombie game.
Dead Rising was another one

 

[atyourservice]

Survival: Left 4 Dead

Was this heavily modded or vanilla?

 

[Evolved1]

TLOU2

 

[TwiztidElf]

Original Dead Rising for all three.
Honorable mentions for Days Gone and Dying Light.

 

[RPS37]

Loving the L4D mentions in this thread.

 

[Robb]

Resident Evil (the more action oriented/3rd person titles) and Left 4 Dead would be my picks.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I don't think there's not enough actual horror games featuring zombies out there. Especially if you're a purist and you don't consider necromorphs or infected from TLoU to be zombies. Sure you have games like RE1-3, ZombiU or Deadlight, but the action aspect often takes the lead or traditional zombies are transformed into something else to make them cooler.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Action: Dead Rising
Survival: State of Decay 2
Horror: none, zombies are not scary

 

[teokrazia]

Dying Light 1
DayZ
RE2R
Left 4 Dead

 

[The Cockatrice]

Top zombie games in pretty much everything are Left 4 Dead, Dying Light and Resident Evil 4 Re

 

[kunonabi]

Action: Resident Evil 3: Nemesis(Fuck off REmake 3)
Survival: Zombi U, could use some tweaks but it's mostly there
Horror: Dead Rising, pretty much the only zombie game that actually feels like a real zombie movie even with the comedic aspects.

 

[Warablo]

Dying Light 1 is overall probably the best mix of modern gaming

 

[TastyPastry]

Action: RE4R
Horror: RE2R
Survival: RE1R

 

[IAmRei]

resident evil series, and L4D
i don't see zombie as horror as I grown up,
and in the contrary, I'm bored with zombie themed boom.
RE and L4D is exception for me, fun game

 

[Guilty_AI]

Half Life if that counts

 

[fatmarco]

Half Life if that counts

If Half Life (and 2) counts, Doom 3 and Halo 1 / 2 have very good zombie experiences too.

Not many dedicated zombie games beat levels like "Ravenholm" or "343 Guilty Spark".

 

[Kupfer]

Action: Dead Island 2
Survival: DayZ
Horror: Resident Evil 2

 

[John Bilbo]

Deadlight

Never heard of this one, but for that price...

 

[Punished Miku]

I was a big fan of Dead Nation. Hasn't really been topped for me personally.

 

[darth.shrimp]

Action: The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned, if a DLC counts
Survival: Seven Days to Die
Horror: can't say I've ever been scared by any zombie game lol, but probably one of the first RE (1-4)?

 

[Arachnid]

Action: Dying Light 1 or TLOU2 (RE4 isn't a zombie game)
Survival: State of Decay 1
Horror: Dead Space or RE2make

 

[NeverYouMind]

Resident Evil 3 Remake had the best action. From scripted Nemesis encounters to zombies, lickers, and hunters swarming Jill and Carlos as they try to escape the city it always kept me on my toes while keeping me stocked, locked, and loaded.


Dead Space 2 really nailed the survival aspect. I was constantly conserving ammo and barely surviving the onslaught of necromorphs.


Days Gone nailed horror aspect. Having a siren unexpectedly go off (attracting freakers), accidently running into a horde, or running out of fuel in the middle of the night was some scary shit. The first encounter with an infected grizzly, escaping Ripper central, and discovering a Reacher in a near pitch black cave also served as points of high tension.

 

[HogIsland]

It's last of us 2 by every metric

 

[CliffBronger]

I really enjoyed Days Gone and all the RE Remakes

 

[rofif]

Dead rising 1 and re games obviously.

 

[Vick]

Action: Days Gone/TLOU PI-II/Resident Evil 6
Survival: Resident Evil 2002/Resident Evil 2 Remake/TLOU PI-II
Horror: Resident Evil 2 Remake

If for some reason we consider Necromorphs or Ganados "zombies".

Action: Dead Space/Resident Evil 4 Remake/TLOU PI-II/Days Gone
Survival: Resident Evil 2002/Resident Evil 2 Remake/Dead Space/TLOU PI-II
Horror: Resident Evil 2 Remake

All games mentioned played at their max difficulty.

 

[NeverYouMind]

If for some reason we consider Necromorphs or Ganados "zombies".

Zombies are reanimated undead, so necromorphs would be more fitting than freakers in Days Gone or infected in The Last of Us or ganados in Resident Evil 4.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Action?

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Zombi U

Spoiler

jk, haven’t played it. Days Gone ftw!!!

 

[grvg]

Half Life if that counts

I remember telling my friends(who liked zombie stuff a lot) that half life was my favorite zombie game. They disagreed with me.

I still think it has the best zombies, and 2 sealed the deal.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

dayz PC around launch time

• the horror of spending an hour+ trying to get into a server with a friend
• the horror of the hyper-jank ARMA engine + laggy servers + buggy code + being super CPU-bound (under 30fps a bunch)
• the horror of zombies teleporting short distances, and switching between their run-state and walk-state randomly
• the horror of you and your friend spawning in completely differently parts of the giant ass map, and now you get to find each other with no resources
• the horror of perma-death, and knowing if you or your friend dies, you both get to spend another hour+ trying to get into another server

total jank town USA, but man, did all the jank up the ante.
finding a pistol and a handful of bullets was a revelation, and going into buildings was nerve-wracking.

 

[N30RYU]

Unpopular opinion... ZombiU (WiiU version with the use of the second screen) is one of the best survival zombie game